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    Francesca Gaetana Cosima Wagner (née Liszt; 24 December 1837 – 1 April 1930) was the daughter of the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt and Franco-German...
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    efforts of his wife, Cosima Wagner, and has since been maintained by their descendants, attracting audiences from around the world. Wagner's unorthodox operas...
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  • philanthropist Cosima Wagner (1837–1930), diarist and director of the Bayreuth Festival, daughter of Franz Liszt and widow of Richard Wagner Lara Cosima Henckel...
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    According to Cosima's diaries (26 December 1868) Wagner "did not believe" that Ludwig Geyer was his real father. At the same time Cosima noted a resemblance...
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    Bayreuth Festival from 1908 to 1930. Siegfried Wagner was born in 1869 to Richard Wagner and his future wife Cosima (née Liszt), at Tribschen on Lake Lucerne...
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  • Richard Burton as Richard Wagner Gemma Craven as Minna Planer, later Wagner Dame Vanessa Redgrave as Cosima von Bülow, later Wagner Miguel Herz-Kestranek...
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    League player Cosima Wagner (1837–1930), director of the Bayreuth Festival, daughter of Liszt and widow of Richard Wagner Dalton Wagner (born 1998), American...
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    Eva Chamberlain (category Wagner family)
    Bülow; 17 February 1867 – 26 May 1942) was the daughter of Richard Wagner and Cosima Wagner, and the wife of Houston Stewart Chamberlain. When she was born...
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    Winifred Marjorie Wagner (née Williams; 23 June 1897 – 5 March 1980) was the English-born wife of Siegfried Wagner, the son of Richard Wagner, and ran the...
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    have just left the intimate circle of the Dear Friends (i.e. Richard & Cosima Wagner) and have retired to the cosy little room which we shared when we were...
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    Bülow, mother of five children (including Cosima's two daughters with Bülow, Blandine [de] and Daniela, Wagner's step-children): Isolde Ludowitz von Bülow...
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  • Leitmotif (category Richard Wagner)
    annoyance; his wife Cosima Wagner quoted him as saying "People will think all this nonsense is done at my request!". In fact Wagner himself never publicly...
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    with the reinstatement of Walther's act 2 solo. Wagner remained dissatisfied with the opera. Cosima Wagner noted in her diary on 23 January 1883 (three weeks...
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    Siegfried Idyll (category Compositions by Richard Wagner)
    Richard Wagner is a symphonic poem for chamber orchestra. Wagner composed the Siegfried Idyll as a birthday present to his second wife, Cosima, after the...
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    Isolde Beidler (category Wagner family)
    was the first child of the composer Richard Wagner and his wife, who is generally known as Cosima Wagner (though the two of them married only in 1870)...
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    Wagner, covering the years from his birth in 1813 to 1864. On 17 July 1865 in Munich, Wagner began dictating Mein Leben to his then mistress Cosima von...
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    Cosima joined him, and Eva and Siegfried, children of Wagner and Cosima, were born here. After Cosima's divorce from Hans von Bülow, she and Wagner were...
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    Parsifal (redirect from Parsifal (Wagner))
    pen, dividing the whole into three acts. However, as his second wife Cosima Wagner later reported on 22 April 1879, this account had been colored by a...
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    86C, is the third of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It premiered...
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    Richard Wagner in Leipzig in 1868 and later Wagner's wife, Cosima. Nietzsche admired both greatly and during his time at Basel frequently visited Wagner's house...
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    Wahnfried (category Richard Wagner)
    Papperitz (1846-1918) shows Franz von Lenbach, Siegfried Wagner, Cosima Wagner, Mrs Materna, Richard Wagner, Hermann Levi, Hans Richter, Franz Liszt (at the piano)...
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  • written by Wagner on 11 April 1836; Wagner perhaps had a grievance that Mendelssohn had not subsequently conducted it. In 1874 Wagner told Cosima that he...
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  • list of cinema films which have music by Richard Wagner in their soundtracks (other than films of Wagner's operas themselves). Casual references (and use...
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  • Richard und Cosima, French: Richard et Cosima) is a 1986 West German-French drama film directed by Peter Patzak about the life of Richard Wagner. It was screened...
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  • Bayreuth Circle (category Wagner studies)
    it was not politically influential. After the death of Wagner in 1883, his second wife Cosima, in continuing to propagate what she saw as her husband's...
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    Cosima Wagner: Die Tagebücher. 2 vols., München 1976 f. Richard Wagner: Schriften und Dichtungen. 16 vols., Fritzsch, Leipzig 1911. Richard-Wagner-Stiftung...
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    the Bayreuth canon established under the direction of his grandmother Cosima Wagner.[citation needed] Wolfgang attracted some criticism for what was seen...
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    extracts. Wagner returned briefly to the Ring music in late 1862, when he prepared an orchestral version of the "Ride of the Valkyries". Wagner and Cosima were...
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  • Gobineau met and befriended the German composer Richard Wagner and his wife Cosima. Wagner was greatly impressed with the Essai sur l'inégalité des races...
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    Houston Stewart Chamberlain (category Wagner family)
    to the Wahnfried to meet Cosima Wagner, the reclusive leader of the Wagner cult. Chamberlain later recalled that Cosima Wagner had "electrified" him as...
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